Sunday, March 26, 2017

Moral Development and Reality, continued

Continuing this post, also
of interest in the referenced pages is that formal operations are a necessary
prerequisite for the meta-cognitive, meta-ethical investigation of such
spiritual concerns via the likes of meditation. And while this
existential domain does not follow an invariant
stage sequence, it is also nonetheless developmental. These existential
developments are indeed Kohlberg's 'state-stages' 5, 6 and 7. Again
akin to the WC lattice in that the 'state-stages' can also be 'above'
the other stages when one achieves a certain stage development. But they
can also still be interpreted using lower moral stages.This
lends further credence to my long-held argument that the rational ego
is necessary for both meditative state training and the door to
postmetaphysical stage development. It is also the fulcrum around which
both pre- and post-formal rational states and stages 'fold', overcoming
the invariant sequencing of ever-increasing complexity in the standard
stages. The latter might be very useful but are not necessary for this process, and in fact could very well inhibit it when they are not interpreted postmetaphysicially.

Instead of calling it 2nd-tier, a sequential metaphor, a more apt metaphor would be the twisted or twining tier.